I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ----+- Johann Most -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

There are some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are ignorance, superstition, and bigotry -- the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

To my mind, the struggle for liberty is too great and the few steps we have gained have been won at too great a sacrifice, for the great mass of the people of this 20th century to consent to turn over to any political party the management of our social and industrial affairs. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

Do not quarrel or deal in personalities. Listen to opposing arguments after you have presented your own. Learn how to remain silent and reflect. Do not try to get the better in an argument at the expense of your own sincerity. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. ----+- Murray Bookchin -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

You who are resigned, look: I spit on your idols. I spit on God, the Fatherland, I spit on Christ, I spit on the flag, I spit on capital and the golden calf; I spit on laws and Codes, on the symbols of religion; they are baubles, I could care less about them, I laugh at them... ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

In the midst of the unspeakable chaos of philosophies of all kinds and of various moralities we can cull out the constant and persistent tendency which pushes the individual towards life. Towards an ever better life, freer and more noble: that is, towards happiness. ----+- Andre Lorulot -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

An anarchist is a man who is careful to always use pedestrian crossings, because he utterly detests talking with policemen. ----+- Georges Brassens -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea! ----+- Max Stirner -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- cc @questionabout 7 months agofrom Gasherpermalink